Knowledge and the Sacred: Revisioning Academic Accountability

Seyyed Hossein Nasr

SUNY Press, Jan 1, 1989 - Philosophy - 341 pages

Nasr (Islamic studies, George Washington U.), in a series of ten lectures, argues that, unlike in the West, where scientific thought has been secularized, in the East, knowledge and religious experience have remained unified. Drawing from Buddhist, Hindu, Judaic, Christian, and Islamic traditions, he finds in each the idea of perennial wisdom as a philosophical basis for such unity. Paperback edition ($10.95) not seen. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Contents

• Knowledge and Its Desacralization: 1
• What Is Tradition?: 65
• The Rediscovery of the Sacred The Revival of Tradition: 93
• Scientia Sacra: 130
• Man Pontifical and Promethean: 160
• The Cosmos as Theophany: 189
• Eternity and The Temporal Order: 221
• Traditional Art as Fountain of Knowledge and Grace: 253
• Principal Knowledge and the Multiplicity of Sacred Forms: 280
• Knowledge of the Sacred as Deliverance: 309
• Index: 332

About the author

Seyyed Hossein Nasr is University Professor of Islamic Studies at George Washington University. He is the author of many books, including Islamic Art and Spirituality, Islamic Life and Thought, and Sufi Essays, and the editor of Expectation of the Millennium: Shi'ism in History and Shi'ism: Doctrines, Thought, and Spirituality, also published by SUNY Press.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Knowledge and the Sacred: Revisioning Academic Accountability; Gifford lectures; Gifford lectures
• Author: Seyyed Hossein Nasr
• Edition: illustrated, reissue
• Publisher: SUNY Press, 1989
• ISBN: 0791401766, 9780791401767
• Length: 341 pages
• Subjects: Philosophy / Epistemology; Philosophy / Religious; Religion / General; Social Science / Islamic Studies